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Of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), 10% is contributed by the construction industry, which is worth annually about USD 8 trillion. With world annual cement production exceeding 4 billion tonnes and contributing 5 to 8% of global CO2 emissions, there is ample motivation to reduce this ...

The Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC introduced the concept of end-of-waste criteria, with the aim of supporting recycling markets in the EU by creating a level playing field and increasing legal certainty for all actors in the sector. According to Article 6 of this Directive, a waste ...

As it had been demonstrated for more than a half of a century, construction and demolition waste, steel slag, other industrial and domestic wastes or by-products, have a potential for being transformed in construction materials. Not only concrete, bituminous mixtures or granular materials for ...